The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 55
First walked her bodyguard of grasshoppers, followed by her maids of honour, who were those tiny green frogs you see in the fields, each one mounted on a snail, and seated on a velvet saddle.
Who acts: honour, you · What happens: walk, follow, be, see, mount, seat · To what, where: bodyguard, grasshoppers, tiny green frogs, fields, one, velvet saddle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honour, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 walked | advmod |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bodyguard | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bodyguard | bodyguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 grasshoppers | case |
| 6 | grasshoppers | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bodyguard | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 grasshoppers | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 maids | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 maids | nmod:poss |
| 11 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | obl:agent |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 honour | case |
| 13 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maids | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 frogs | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 frogs | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 frogs | cop |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 frogs | det |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 frogs | amod |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 frogs | amod |
| 20 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 honour | appos |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 frogs | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 fields | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fields | det |
| 25 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 see | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 one | punct |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 honour | appos |
| 29 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 one | acl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 snail | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 snail | det |
| 32 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mounted | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seated | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 seated | cc |
| 35 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 walked | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 saddle | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 saddle | det |
| 38 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 saddle | compound |
| 39 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seated | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | frog's bodyguard of grasshoppers | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bodyguard=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | grasshoppers not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | honour | that tiny green frogs | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | present | you | that tiny green frogs not said here | the fields | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | mount | participle | each one not said here | on a snail | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on snail=Destination | ||||
| 6 | seat | participle | a velvet saddle | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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